Torture and executions of Palestinians by Hamas

Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Islamist Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during last year’s war with Israel.

A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between Gaza militants and Israel in which health officials said more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. Israel put the number of its dead at 67 soldiers and six civilians.

“Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of ‘collaborating’ with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive against Gaza,” the human rights group’s report said.

They subjected at least 23 people to summary, extrajudicial executions. Six of these men, at least one of whom was arrested during the conflict on suspicion of “collaboration” but never formally charged, were extrajudicially executed in public on 22 August 2014.

No charges, no trial. Just an accusation and death. And this is of their own citizens.

In every case Amnesty International has documented, it has uncovered evidence of Hamas forces using torture during interrogation with the apparent aim of extracting a “confession” from the detainee. Testimonies indicate that victims of torture were beaten with truncheons, gun butts, hoses, wire, and fists; some were also burnt with fire, hot metal or acid.

soundhill1

Komata

But, but, this ISN’T part of the agreed narrative – especially from Amnesty International!! To hear them and their fellow travellers EVERYTHING is Israel’s fault – a fact that Amnesty itself (although supposedly an ‘apolitical’ organisation) was loudly trumpeting until very, very recently. it culd be that they’ve ‘suddenly’ discovered a ‘conscience (which I doubt), or…..

Perhaps their ‘funding’ has been turned off, and it’s ‘payback’ time? One wonders.

Ed Snack

But, but, this ISN’T part of the agreed narrative – especially from Amnesty International!! To hear them and their fellow travellers EVERYTHING is Israel’s fault – a fact that Amnesty itself (although supposedly an ‘apolitical’ organisation) was loudly trumpeting until very, very recently.

soundhill1

stephieboy

soundhill1, plenty of accusations from Assange about ‘ Adventurism ” but the actual evidence he brings to the table is rather sparse . The same Assange who boasted that wiki leaks would expose thousands of US war crimes in Afghanistan ,

kowtow

kiwi in america

Good on Amnesty International – doing the job the international mainstream media wouldn’t do. They were happy to oblige Hamas and their Pallywood presentations of civilian deaths (almost always at sites where they deliberately sited civilians on, below or adjacent to rocket launching sites, weapons and rocket storage areas and Gaza tunnel entrances AND they encouraged even prevented said civilians from leaving such buildings even after the IDF sent text messages, dropped leaflets or a knock small rocket by way of warnings). The narrative had to be: Israel Bad – Palestinians Good.

Of course not examined in this study were the hundreds of Fatah activists similarly murdered by Hamas before, during and after the last ‘elections’ in Gaza.

Meanwhile the bien pesant left continue to call Israel a Zionist apartheid state and call for BDS action.

kowtow Agree with you but the problem as I see it is that the various factions within Islam are fighting each other and this has gone on for centuries.

Contrast this with Western religions where yes the factions fought each other for so hundreds of years and even up to the last few decades in Ireland but by and large Western religion has learnt to be tolerant of each other.

Islam hasn’t and doesn’t look like doing so any time soon.

These people are barbaric savages stone age people with stone age mentalities and do amount of reasoning is going to change that so why waste time and money trying.

Best the West protects itself and its citizens and leaves these losers to fight each other hopefully to the death.

Manolo

These people are barbaric savages stone age people with Stone Age mentalities and no amount of reasoning is going to change that so why waste time and money trying.

Well said.

The Islamists are savages that the European elites allow to enter, almost swamp, their countries in the name of multiculturalism. The same barbarians our progressives want to welcome as “immigrants” to NZ.

Boris Piscina

Boris Piscina

There are a number of conspiracy websites running the line that Israeli warplanes “painted to look like Saudi aircraft” have been undertaking missions over Yemen. One of the strikes apparently involved a neutron bomb. (that’s realistic and likely eh). The pilots are reputed to be Arabic-speaking Israeli pilots (why do you have to be able to speak the language of the nation you’re bombing?) who belong to a hitherto-unknown “Kamikaze” unit of the Israeli Air Force (unknown to all but conspiracy bloggers till now, we should rejoice that they have shared their intimate inner secret knowledge with us). The unit apparently primarily exists to undertake “doomsday” missions, flying battered old low-tech model F-16s with nukes to potentially hostile places like Iran, Russia, and Western Europe.

I have to say, one of the worst aspects of becoming an Orthodox Christian has been putting up with the anti-Israel element within it. So many Russian and Greek antisemites, and many Arab Christians would rather be ruled by Arab Muslims than Jews. This is baffling to me – there is less persecution of Arabs Christians in Israel than anywhere else in the Middle East. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where you can convert a Muslim to Christianity without facing jail time or worse. To me, if I have to be ruled by Muslims or Jews, it’s a no-brainer. Give me Jews any day of the week, and on the Sabbath. The biggest scandal is Orthodox collusion with Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. Those Bishops should hang their heads and be deposed.

Of course they did, that’s what conspiracy theorists do, make shit up.

You have hot the nail on the head about their claims. They can never be substantiated by any source outside the paranoid conspiracy community. There is never any way to independently verify their claims. The “evidence” used is often slight in the extreme and open to interpretation, or has just been outright falsified, and again cannot be independently verified.

Anti-Israeli conspiracy theories are no different, and are often motivated by old anti-Jewish memes that have been around for a few hundred years in one form or another.

Boris Piscina

“Boris do the Saudi’s have big enough planes to carry the amount of conventional explosive?”

They have F-15s (and plenty of them) which can carry a payload north of eleven tons, so I would say yes. As for claims of neutron bombs, the same effects can be generated by EPFCG devices, which is worth a Google for any armchair experts who don’t already know what they are 😉